Do you have self-awareness?
91- marinealways24
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[edit] A modern scientific view
Self-Awareness Theory
Self-Awareness Theory states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values. We become self-conscious as objective evaluators of ourselves. Various emotional states are intensified by self-awareness, and people sometimes try to reduce or escape it through things like television, video games, alcohol, drugs, etc. However, some people may seek to increase their self awareness through these outlets. People are more likely to align their behavior with their standards when made self-aware. People will be negatively affected if they don’t live up to their personal standards. Various environmental cues and situations induce awareness of the self, such as mirrors, an audience, or being videotaped or recorded. These cues also increase accuracy of personal memory.[12]
This idea of self-awareness was pulled from wikipedia.
To sum things up, I believe self-awareness can be simplified into having a 3rd person perspective of yourself and thoughts.
Do you believe you have/use self-awareness and why?
92- prettydarkhorse
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marinealways24 wrote:
[edit] A modern scientific view
Self-Awareness Theory
Self-Awareness Theory states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values. We become self-conscious as objective evaluators of ourselves. Various emotional states are intensified by self-awareness, and people sometimes try to reduce or escape it through things like television, video games, alcohol, drugs, etc. However, some people may seek to increase their self awareness through these outlets. People are more likely to align their behavior with their standards when made self-aware. People will be negatively affected if they don’t live up to their personal standards. Various environmental cues and situations induce awareness of the self, such as mirrors, an audience, or being videotaped or recorded. These cues also increase accuracy of personal memory.[12]
This idea of self-awareness was pulled from wikipedia.
To sum things up, I believe self-awareness can be simplified into having a 3rd person perspective of yourself and thoughts.
Do you believe you have/use self-awareness and why?Every activity you do is you must have self awareness first, then try to go out and take a look at the bigger picture....you are a social being so you live in a society, you interact and you follow rules and laws (social laws and political laws). but there are those who are deviant and chose to do whats is not acceptable to society.
Those deviants can change the norms of a society, their acts and behavior will be followed by others and it will become a mode like for example Lady Gaga, the way she dresses is a deviant in some kind of way, but once it is normalize many people will do the same or wear the same clothing, then it will be come a normit helps in dealing with life's absurdities.
92- sannyasinman
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Yes, it is a daily preoccupation, I'm getting better at it, but there's still a long way to go.
96- rebekahELLE
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I think being self aware is being tuned in to our self as an entity, not just a face in the mirror or the thoughts in our head.
the past few years, I've become more self aware and I feel it helps us to function in life overall. I feel more connected to others, the outside is rather superficial, but we're basically the same on the inside, taking away thoughts, opinions, biases.
even if someone on here makes me want to scream at their beliefs, I try to see that person beyond their opinions.
need to sign off here so I can get some work done.I just wrote about this in the Judas - A True Saint thread! Self-awareness, 3rd person point of view in a way, is a technique being used to help OCD sufferers (Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, he wrote The Mind & The Brain). He teaches his patients to relabel the obsessions and compulsions of their disease, first they have to be aware of them as 'glitches', just some of the myriad thoughts that run through one's mind. Paying close attention to what one thinks and analyzing those thoughts gives the opportunity to choose how to deal with them. Faulty brain circuitry can impart urgency to these messages that don't need to truly be considered urgent - by hard work and learning how to deal with the thoughts, one can eventually rewire the brain so that these messages can be discarded like the many other ridiculous thoughts that run through one's brain.
You asked: Do you believe you have/use self-awareness and why?
Generally I don't, I run on auto-pilot too often.
79- Minnaloushe
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I agree with TMinut about the auto-pilot. I think there is a "potential" for self awareness, but most of us run our lives by association. One thought or feeling triggers another, on down the line.
Occasionally we are stopped by something that takes our breath away, but then we fall back to sleep soon enough. It's hard work staying awake :-)
And of course, :you can't wake a person pretending to be asleep" (stolen from the Navajo.)
1- Sexy jonty
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Self awareness is must for the people who are egoist and absent minded .....
self-awareness is the basic function for a normal people, i think.
